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HEAR THE OTHER SIDE.
"Frf ed. III ni the Prs" Nos License.
H. gistGsnrS HHys ~nnie Rights That
Newspapers Must Respect.
The Randallitcs and Protectionists still
Pulling Together 4 gainst the
Farming Element
Ausr-s. TEN. March l, 1857.


Editor Of the Statesman.
Since nearly all the newspapers Of the
state have rushed, precisely "like flock
OF sheep to the rescue CT the alleged
"orilliant young journalist" Of the San
Antonio Express, from the somewhat IN
pleasant treatment he lately received at
the hands Of our present enlightened and
Woodworking House of Representatives;
and, as there are always two sizes to
every mundane question, we have thought
it but Just TO ask you, IS an impartial
organ OF public opinion, TO hear some
thing from the other side.
Speaking for ell the rest, one CT Mr..
, Canheld'S defenderS-sn able and disllu-
guished gentleman who is understood to
| be also connected as reporter IN the
/ House for the Express as we'll as the
/ Staresman-claimS that CHS criticisms
/ were cOHlaed 10 the officials acts and CON-
! duct Of the members, and were therefore
entirely legitimate" we quote from
memory, but dare be sworn We DO The Ge
! porter no Injustice. Now, 1t is not going
| too far to ssy that this is probably as
great mistake as ever was made; for We
are Informed, and have every reason to be.
| lieve, that from the very beginning of Mr..
Canfeld's series of letters to the Express,
he has not failed ina single letter to travel
outside Of the public acts and conduct OF
members, to indulge in personal critl-
CismS ana filings of the coarsest, most
sensational, and most inadmiSsable char
acter, until the letter published on the
27th uito., when they "culminated" IN
that thundergust of scurrilOus personali-
! ties which caused Legislators to realize
| that f0rbearance had ceased to be a viz
tue, and was the immediate cause of the
resolution Of expulsion. In all OF the
three or four letters that we have seen,
| he certainly gees outside OF Official acts
| to indulge in espersions Of the grossest
and most inexCusable personal character.
! Now, without the slightest fattery-
for what everybody comedies cannot be
| iattery-the members of the present
House of Representatives, will, in per-
sonal appearance, department, dress
aud general intelligence, compare
favorrbly with any similar body of men
ever convened il Austin or any other
state capitol east or wesS OF the Mis-
sissippi. We have seen many Legisla-
lures in session, from Boston via Wash
iugton to this city, and we but speak the
words cf truth and sobeTneSs when we
s firm that Texas, both in ard out OF her
! legislative halls, can show 4 race OF men
! who, for splendid physique and irtelli-
gent bearing, may well stand unboR-
/ netted among he noblest in the land.
/ And yet when Mr.. Garfield says in sub
| stance, in his letter of the
27th ult., that "No man can sit
dt the reportorial table, and,with birds
eye view Of the cOnglOmerated and con-
uentrated uGliness of this House of Rep
resentaIive-) fail to wish for a detective
camera which would enable him to rem
der practically immortal so universal an
outrage of the first law of nature, which
is the beautiful, "(,( his brother journal
lists and admirers boldly claim that his
criticisms are strictly legitimate, because
confined TO the official acts and conduct
of the legislators.
In the very next sentence he seriously
and soleInnly charges that only Gan i'm
mense minority can pass muster in the
matter of hair and crayats," while "the
opposition to personal polchrItude, clean
illness, aud acceptable clothing" is so
Overwhelming" that the Austin artists
heretofore eager to photograph the mem
bers, "have fallen back appalled, before
the dread vision" of these
assembled solons of the House,
"with their retreatiDg foreheads, tousled
hair, unshaven faces, soiled shirts guilt
less OF collars, white scanned coats,
pants that bag at the knees with terrible
bagginess, shoes which a-e fashioned on
the generous principle of the room-for.
one more stIeet-car; shocking bad hats
and general air of that uncleanli3ess
which Is next to the devil; lips stained
vi tobacco saliva; teeth which were
:.vt; tujs"-kGuckled hands, whose SIM
uetr, : awong the sweet might-haye-
&c. euS Ja=- iuay not he; and high over
al, lis; $50 iprs most aiwavs &C
c,rJuag~d by wa->iuc haaas and their
own Involuntary movement, long drawn
out and DondroUS esrG whose siow-sway-
irg pendulrsity marks the iAtellec u@l
status OF their owners" But still, the ad-
mirers Of the "bril,iaHl young Journalist
coateud that such criticisms are ''of-
AeIdi' and not "ptrSOnal!' And Still
1.-THE pitiless but wildly imaginative critic
Aproccsds to remark tbaG "as beautiful
SRom4A is beautiful all through" so the
sssEsge ugly legislator he has been paint
/ ing (there being really only one such ont
! Of los, aud he not half so ugly as he
/ paints. ulih LIS ESIuouS NSICJ llOLi LAC
| nail stu6ded'sole of his 81 boots 10 the
( summit Of bis poll, unscarred By comb,
unsmoothetSby bruSh."
! Again, Mr.. Cantield says: The En-
press has no personal end TO gain
IN taus direc.pg attention to the
| universally prevalent Loneliness OF
i;the, lower body of the Twentieth
fLeeislatuEe. 1t (the Express-that's him
self as pretty itselt'-and while his
beauty does not give him the right to
make illusions to others lack Of it, still
these present legislators are so infer
nally h0mely that, all their "watcl-stop-
ping faces taken IN conjunction" from g
! picture SO striking, thst "the beaming eve
of the public is turned on it just to DEM
onstrate the familiar axiom that like sees
like, and that ebnormally plain people,
finding nothing tie do at home, always
run for the Legislature, rightly regarding
the capital es a kind of asylum for the
physically unfortunate or home for the
superannuated and worn-out rail maui
ers.n
Thus, through nearly a whole column
! this untamed, reckless, sky-rocketing
spendthrift Of printers ink emphasizes
and drives home with rugged vehemence
the groundless charge that the members